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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Moment of Oneness - August 18, 2021

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Meeting ID: 815 0755 1772
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Loving Our Neighbor

Created by Kathleen Bellefeuille-Rice, RCWP


Opening Prayer: Words of Valerie Kaur (from See No Stranger pages 310-311) Reader 1: Love is a form of sweet labor: fierce, bloody, imperfect, and life-giving—a choice we make over and over again. Love can be taught, modeled, and practiced. It engages all our emotions: Joy is the gift of love. Grief is the price of love. Anger protects that which is loved. And when we think we have reached our limit, wonder is the act that returns us to love. 

Reader 2: “Revolutionary love” is the choice to enter into labor for others, for our opponents, and for ourselves in order to transform the world around us. It is not a formal code or prescription but an orientation to life that is personal and political, rooted in joy. Loving only ourselves is escapism; loving only our opponents is self-loathing; loving only others is ineffective. All three practices together make love revolutionary, and revolutionary love can only be practiced in community. 

Reader 1: Seeing no stranger begins in wonder. It is to look upon the face of anyone and choose to say: You are a part of me I do not yet know. Wonder is the wellspring for love. Who we wonder about determines whose stories we hear and whose joy and pain we share. Those we grieve with, those we sit with and weep with, are ultimately those we organize with and advocate for. When a critical mass of people come together to wonder about one another, grieve with one another, and fight with and for one another, we begin to build the solidarity needed for collective liberation and transformation—a solidarity rooted in love. 

Reader 2: Loving Source of Life, we stand before you with open hearts to discover the ways of Revolutionary Love. Help us to learn to love all our neighbors, to wonder about those who are different than us and to see no stranger in the faces we meet. All: Amen. 

3. Litany of Loving by Chett Pritchett, 2011. (adapted for this service) 

Reader 1: Holy One, Out of love, you swept over the waters and hovered over the face of the deep. Your love created all that was, all that is, and all that will be. All: Open our hearts to your love.

Reader 2: Out of love, you brought your people out of oppression. Your love gave them a law and a land. All: Open our hearts to your love. 

Reader 1: When their love for you failed, Your love remained steadfast. All: Open our hearts to your love. 

Reader 2: Gracious One, Because of love, you gave us prophets to challenge and guide: Visionaries, dancers, dreamers, and scoundrels. All: Fill our hearts with your love. 

Reader 1: Because of love, you sent Jesus of Nazareth, the full expression of your love. He healed the sick; he ate with sinners; he loved with abandon. All: Fill our hearts with your love. 

Reader 2: Because of love, Jesus called together his disciples so that we might walk in the way that leads to love. All: Fill our hearts with your love. 

Reader 1: Passionate One, Teach us, as Jesus did, to love our neighbors, Our unhoused neighbors, Our immigrant neighbors All: Set our hearts on fire with your love. 

Reader 2: Teach us, as Jesus did, to love our neighbors of different faiths or who have no faith at all. All: Set our hearts on fire with your love. 

Reader 1: Teach us, as Jesus did, to love our LGBTQ neighbors, our heterosexist neighbors All: Set our hearts on fire with your love. 

Reader 2: Teach us, as Jesus did, to love our undereducated neighbors, our neighbors who see race as a barrier to loving others. All: Set our hearts on fire with your love. 

Reader 1: Teach us, as Jesus did, to love and empower us, O God of all creation, to love our neighbors because out of love, you first loved us. All: Set our hearts on fire with your love. Amen. 

Reader 2: And so together we sing...

4. Song: We Are One by Joyce Johnson Rouse/Earth Mama 


https://youtu.be/DHCnT5PT-ew
 

Closing Prayer

Reader 1: Our response to this Franciscan blessing is Amen! May the Holy One bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. All. Amen 

Reader 2: May Holy One bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. All. Amen

Reader 3: May Holy One bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. All. Amen 

Reader 4: And may Holy One bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done. All. Amen 

Reader 5: With hearts on fire, let us go forth from here empowered to live a life of Revolutionary Love by loving our neighbors and seeing no stranger among us. All: Amen.

Used with permission for Kathleen Bellefeuille-Rice, RCWP

Friday, August 13, 2021

Upper Room Liturgy - Assumption of Mary, August 15, 2021 - Presiders: Debra Trees, ARCWP, and Jean Talbot

 

Please join us between 9:30 and 9:55 am via Zoom
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Meeting ID: 825 1215 9155

Welcome and Theme: Deb

Today is the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary. In the Catholic Tradition of Mariology, the Assumption is one of the Four Dogmas of the Church’s teachings on Mary, developed into formal decree in the 1900s. We celebrate today here in the Upper Room, Mary as the Teacher of Jesus, the Mother and Supporter of the Early Church, and the Witness with others to Jesus’s presence, life and legacy. May we be like Mary, a supporter, guide and witness for those in our lives.

As we begin, I ask you all to center yourselves where you are. Close your eyes. Take in a deep breath and bring awareness to your body in this space. Feel your feet on the floor and feel the push back of Mother Earth below you. Sink into this awareness as you are connected here on this planet. Take in another deep Breath, Open your Eyes. Jean and I Welcome you to this Celebration of Mary, our Mother.

Opening Song: Ancient Mother by Jan Novotka. 

https://youtu.be/PJSBqNoIqsM


LITURGY OF THE WORD

First Reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

After Jesus had been taken up to Heaven, the Apostles returned to Jerusalem from the Mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath’s day journey away.

When they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. 

All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer together with some women, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

These are writings attributed to Luke, and our community affirms them by saying AMEN.


Alleluia.


Gospel Reading. Luke 1:39-56 (From the New, New Testament)

Mary set out, and made her way quickly into the hill country, to a town in Judah; and there she went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child moved within her, and Elizabeth herself was filled with the holy Spirit and cried aloud: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! But how have I this honor, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For, as soon as your greeting reached my ears, the child leaped within me with delight! Happy indeed is she who believed that the promise which she received from the Lord would be fulfilled.

And Mary said:

“My soul exalts the Lord, my spirit delights in God my Savior; for he has remembered his humble slave; and from this hour all generations count me happy! 

Great things has the Almighty done for me; and holy is his name. From age to age his compassion rests on those who fear him. He has used the power of his arm; he scattered the proud of heart, he overthrew princes from their thrones, and the humble he uplifted, the hungry he has loaded with good things, and the rich he sent away.

He has stretched out his hand to his servant Israel, ever mindful of his mercy (as he promised to our ancestors) for Abraham and his race forever.”

Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months, and then returned to her home.

These are writings attributed to Luke, and our community affirms them by saying AMEN.


Homily Starter. Deb Trees

Mary is celebrated in many ways: as a Queen, Mother of all, and supporter of Jesus and his Spiritual Way. The Church has put Mary on a pedestal, above all other saints. It holds dear the concepts of Mary as Perpetual Virgin, Immaculately Conceived, Assumed into Heaven, and as the Mother of God. These dogmas surrounding Mary are a tall order for any human!  And of course, Mary is not equal to a Goddess! She is above the saints, but below a Male Godhead.

Through many centuries, in a patriarchal system both secular and religious, women have been second class citizens, and often considered slaves or owned. Yet The Rose, the sign of Mary, could not be put down. She has consistently popped up in early Christian rites, art in churches, devotions and prayers, and in societies of believers seeing her presence. The Catholic Churches’ “allowance” of her is possibly a realization that her followers will not go away. In The Way of the Rose Strand and Finn note that for thousands of years humans have called her The Great Mother, The Queen of Heaven and Earth, the Star of the Sea, the Mother of Life. She has had other names too: Inanna, Isis, Venus. Her New-Life Celebrations every May were practiced long before two-thousand years ago. 

So how can we perpetuate our personal relationship with Mary? As the mother of Jesus I believe that she was his teacher. He learned his sense of social justice, gained his awareness of spirit, and demonstrated love to all from the example of the one who taught him. As parents, it is what we do. In that light, I think of Mary as My teacher, My supporter, My Connection to the Divine. In the face of great adversity, Mary became a leader and teacher to the community left behind trying to follow what Jesus taught them.

How do you think of Mary? If you would like to share, please unmute yourself and then mute again when you are done. 


Statement of Faith 

We believe in the Holy One, a divine mystery 
beyond all definition and rational understanding, 
the heart of all that has ever existed, 
that exists now, or that ever will exist. 
 
We believe in Jesus, messenger of the Divine Word, 
bringer of healing, heart of Divine compassion, 
bright star in the firmament of the Holy One's 
prophets, mystics, and saints. 
 
We believe that We are called to follow Jesus 
as a vehicle of divine love, 
a source of wisdom and truth,

and an instrument of peace in the world. 


We believe in the Spirit of the Holy One, 
the life that is our innermost life, 
the breath moving in our being, 
the depth living in each of us. 
 
We believe that the Divine kin-dom is here and now, 
stretched out all around us for those 
with eyes to see it, hearts to receive it, 
and hands to make it happen. 


LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Jean:  As we prepare for this sacred meal, we are aware of our call to serve, and just as Jesus is anointed, so is each of us. We bring to this table our blessings, cares and concerns.

 

Intentions read


Deb: We bring these and all deeply held blessings, cares, and concerns to the table of friendship and peace. 

With open hands let us pray our Eucharistic Prayer together: 

Jean: Holy One, we yearn to be close to you and to live in the embrace of your gentle wisdom. Your divine grace and love lead us away from our anxieties, fears and distractions and toward all that is blessed and joyous.  

Each of us is divinely created in Your image. We are precious to you and to each other because of who we are. We are beloved and blessed in your unconditional love, quite apart from how we act or fail to act.  

Deb: Thankful for Jesus who treated all of Creation with respect and abundant love, we resolve to follow his example to be a light in the darkness. We recognize Your loving Presence here with us today and always, and we sing: 

Holy, Holy, Holy  Here in this Place by Chris Grundy


https://youtu.be/sgkWXOSGmOQ

Jean: Dearest Holy One, there are times when we feel scarcity and emptiness even though we know You love us more than our human imagination can grasp. May we have the presence of mind to live in Your love. We strive to see You reflected in every person we meet. Guide us in sharing our gifts and in being open hearted so that we may accept help from others.   

We thank you for Jesus, who knew what it was like to be an outsider in occupied and foreign lands. May his presence prompt us to bring gospel kindness and understanding to the divisions and conflicts of our time.  

Jean: Please extend your hands in blessing. 

We call upon your Spirit that is present in us at this Eucharistic table. We are grateful for the bread and wine that remind us of our call to be the light of Christ to the world.  

 On the night before he faced betrayal and death, Jesus shared supper with his friends.  He reminded them of all that he taught them, and to fix that memory clearly with them, he bent down and washed their feet.  

When he returned to his place at the table, he lifted the bread, spoke the blessing, broke the bread and offered it to them saying:  

Take and eat, this is my very self. 

Then he took the cup of the covenant, spoke the grace, and offered it to them saying: 

Take and drink. 

Whenever you remember me like this, 

I am among you. 

(pause)

 

Let us share this bread and cup to proclaim and live the gospel of justice and peace, using the words: “I live the Desires of the Divine in my life.”


Communion Song: Ave Maria. https://youtu.be/sv87obLDUvQ



Post-Communion Prayer

Deb: Holy One, your transforming grace inspires us to follow our consciences and bring comfort to wherever people are in need.  We pray for wisdom, patience and persistence to make a difference in our world. We resolve to love as Jesus loved, to discern the better angels of our nature with hearts open to your Spirit. Amen.  

Jean: Let us pray as Jesus taught us:  

Holy One, you are within, around and among us.   
We celebrate your many names.  
Your wisdom come; your will be done,  
unfolding from the depths within us.  
Each day you give us all that we need.  
You remind us of our limits and we let go.  
You support us in our power, and we act with courage.  
For you are the dwelling place within us,  
the empowerment around us,  
and the celebration among us,  
now and forever, Amen.    Adapted by Miriam Therese Winter  

BLESSING

Deb: Blessings to each of us as we go on our way into the world. We bring the beauty and love of the Mother with us. We shine with dignity and caring for ourselves and those around us. We search for ways to support the work of peace and justice as Mary did, living the vision of Jesus with her life. May we always remember she is only a thought away. 

Closing Song: You Say, I Believe by Lauren Daigle 


 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uvsNrK1QT8


Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Moment of Oneness - August 11, 2021

 

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Meeting ID: 815 0755 1772
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Courage


Introduction:

Today is the feast day of Clare of Assisi who, I think, must have had great courage in her lifetime. She refused marriage, became one of the first followers of Francis’ teachings and went to live in a convent. She lived a simple life and later founded the religions order now known as the Poor Clares. 

In these current times, we also need courage and strength to forge our own path. In both the writings of Joan Chittister and Richard Rohr they identify that people (prophets) need to live their faith rather than only pray about it. Action is necessary.

Barbara Taylor Brown says, “When people wanted him (Jesus) to tell them God’s truth about something, he asked them what they thought. With all kinds of opportunities to tell people what to think, he told them what to do instead (Taylor, Barbara Brown. An Altar in the World (pp. 118-119).

This takes courage! “But courage, however apparently fruitless, is not without its own reward. Anaïs Nin wrote once: “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” And courage is a prophet’s road. The prophets had a choice. So do we.” (Joan Chittister)

Opening Song: 


Spirit Lead Me sung by Samo Josefa Samo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXBkSbwMJks


Opening Prayer:

Chittister, Joan. The Time Is Now (p. 14+)

It is a world in wait. It waits for some wise and wild voices to lead us back to spiritual sanity. Our world waits for you and me, for spiritual people everywhere—to refuse to be pawns in the destruction of a global world for the sake of national self-centeredness. The only question is, Will we take up what we know is our moral and spiritual responsibility: to make the world a better place for all, to bring to life the fullness of Creation for all? To help bring about equality, safety, security, and compassion for all? 

The Prophets chose courage. They chose the expansion of the soul. They chose to stake their lives on what must be rather than stake their comfort, their security, the direction of their lives, on what was.

Intentions:

Adapted from, The Time Is Now

Refrain : We live our faith on the streets of the world. We are all humans together.

Let us not be smothered by the institutional trappings of the past.

Let us understand the cries of the destitute, depressed and defamed.

Let us try to deter violence on all classes and cultures of people.

Let us pray for hope in the future; to persuade, to enlighten the world.

Let us teach and stand with others for peace and justice.

Let us work towards closing the gap from life as it is to life as God wants it to be.

Silent Time for Reflection

Closing Prayer: by Richard Rohr

Loving God, you fill all things with a fullness and hope that we can never comprehend. Thank you for leading us into a time where more of reality is being unveiled for us all to see. We pray that you will take away our natural temptation for cynicism, denial, fear and despair. Help us have the courage to awaken to greater truth, greater humility, and greater care for one another.  May we place our hope in what matters and what lasts, trusting in your eternal presence and love.  Listen to our hearts’ longing for the healing of our suffering world. Knowing, good God, you are hearing us better than we are speaking, we offer these prayers in all the holy names of God.  Amen


Closing Song: Raise Me Up

https://youtu.be/_ihJYnH2zEE?t=21 







Thursday, August 5, 2021

Upper Room Liturgy - August 8, 2021 - 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Presiders: Lindy Sanford-Martinez, ARCWP, and Dave DeBonis


Please join us between 9:30 and 9:55 am via Zoom
Here is the Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82512159155
phone-in for (audio only).Phone Number: (646) 558-8656
Meeting ID: 825 1215 9155


Theme: “As We Receive Communion, We Become Communion.”


 

Welcome: Dave:  As we come together this morning, we ask Spirit to open our hearts and minds to the words spoken here so that they will not just be words, but will be the spiritual nourishment we need to maintain the joy in our lives as we work to live the gospel in a time of great need and great challenge. 

 

Theme: Lindy:   Jesus saw himself and all he thought as feeding those around him. In these hard times it seems that each of us is hungry for so much.  What life was like before Covid...For what we need today.  For what our children, our neighbors, our nation, and our world needs. We here, the people of the Upper Room, choose to feed the world by being inclusive, just, and loving!  


Pause

 

Opening Song:  Anthem by Tom Conroy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP2gwC5TGFs 

 


Liturgy of the Word

   

Theada: A reading from Valarie Kaur, a 21st century Sikh American activist


  In the face of horrors visited upon our world daily, in the struggle to protect our loved ones, choosing to let in joy is a revolutionary act.


  These are the inspired words of Valarie Kaur, a 21st century Sikh American activist and the community affirms them by saying, Amen.

 

Dennis:  Alleluia


Ginny:  The Temple authorities started to grumble in protest because Jesus claimed, “I am
the bread that came down from heaven.”  They kept saying, “Isn’t this Jesus, son of Mary and Joseph? Don’t we know his mother and father? How can he claim to have come down from heaven?”

 

 Mike:  Jesus said in reply, “It is written in the prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard God’s word and has learned from it comes to me.

  Not that anyone has seen Abba God — except one who has opened his heart. He has seen Abba God. In all truth I tell you everyone who believes has eternal life.

   I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert and they are dead, but this bread comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat it and not die.

   I am that Living bread. The bread I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

 

 Ginny: These are the inspired words attributed to the disciple known as John.  The Community affirms these words by saying AMEN.

 

Pause

 

Lindy: Shared Homily:  As We Receive Communion, We Become Communion


   The Gospel today can be confusing...Did Jesus actually say all that?  Was he quoting part of what was written in the Old Testament? Was he claiming to do what many call transfiguration today?  

   I don't think it really matters whether he said it, who is right, or if anyone is right.  What matters is how he lived.  It mattered then and it matters now.

   Jesus lived through a hard time.  He made a choice to spend his adult life helping others.   Reminding everyone around him that happiness depends on giving and receiving love.  He spent his life nourishing everyone around him, feeding them what they needed most.

  His kindness was like giving them food, bread, staving off the hunger they were experiencing….teaching them 1st by reminding them that their faith told them that loving their Creator was the most important thing they could do.  Reminding them that the Creator was providing them, and protecting them, and always will. Reminded them with his love for them as well.  He told them stories we call parables today to give them ideas to contemplate...helping them to choose what to do for themselves. He fed their souls with attention, conversation, and gentleness, and assurance too.  

   Eventually he knew if he continued to pour out all his strength and time helping others find peace and joy in a chaotic country it probably would cost his life.   Mahatma Gandhi had the same experience.  Like Gandhi, Jesus chose joy. He wasn’t willing to stop.  

   He fed them, and now us with his teaching, his stories, and his kindness.  Are we willing to take all this in, to receive this communion, consume this bread of life he gave, learn how to live peace and joy in our time and become communion by pouring this revolutionary love onto every person we meet?  What will it cost us?  How will it enrich us?


Dave: And now Jim will lead us in our Statement of Faith. 

 




Jim Marsh.  Let us pray our Statement of Faith together

 All: We believe in the Holy One, a divine mystery 
beyond all definition and rational understanding, 
the heart of all that has ever existed, 
that exists now, or that ever will exist. 
 
We believe in Jesus, messenger of the Divine Word, 
bringer of healing, heart of Divine compassion, 
bright star in the firmament of the Holy One's 
prophets, mystics, and saints. 
 
We believe that We are called to follow Jesus 
as a vehicle of divine love, 
a source of wisdom and truth, 
and an instrument of peace in the world. 
We believe in the Spirit of the Holy One, 
the life that is our innermost life, 
the breath moving in our being, 
the depth living in each of us. 
 
We believe that the Divine kin-dom is here and now, 
stretched out all around us for those 
with eyes to see it, hearts to receive it, 
and hands to make it happen. 

 

Liturgy of the Eucharist

 

Dennis: As we prepare for the sacred meal, we bring to this table our blessings, cares and concerns.  

 

We bring these and all deeply held blessings, cares, and concerns to the table of friendship and peace. 

 

Eucharistic Prayer 

 

Lindy:  Holy One of Light, from whom every gift comes, send your Spirit into our lives with the power of a mighty wind by the flame of your wisdom.  Open the horizons of our minds.  

 

Dave:  We are a priestly people. We are anointed. With open hands let us pray our Eucharistic prayer as one voice:

 

O Nurturing, Mothering one, You are always with us. We are grateful for Your constant loving and unconditional presence. At times we forget that You are holding us, attending to us. We fall and You pick us up. You send strangers, friends and family to our aid. We often forget we are never without Your Light and Spirit.

 

We experience great joy and we experience great pain and suffering. You are with us in that joy and that pain and suffering. When we experience Your presence, we long to sing our hymn of praise: 

 

Holy, Holy, Holy  Here in this Place by Chris Grundy


https://youtu.be/sgkWXOSGmOQ
 

 

Lindy: Creator and Lover of all, we cannot grow in the darkness of this world without Your Light. Help us keep our hearts and minds open to You through our love and care for each other and all creation.

 

Theada: Please extend your hands in blessing.

 

This bread and wine is a sign of Your nourishment and a sign of Your great love. Your Spirit is upon us and we belong to You and one another.

 

We thank you for Jesus, simple servant, lifting up the lowly, revealing you as God-With-Us, revealing us as one with you, and all creation.

Dave: On the night before he died, Jesus gathered for the Seder supper with the people closest to him. Like the least of household servants, he washed their feet. Once again, he showed us how to love one another.

 

All lift the plate and pray:

 

When he returned to his place at the table, he lifted the bread, spoke the blessing, broke the bread, and offered it to them saying: 

“Take and eat, this is my very self.”

(Pause)

 

All lift the cup and pray:

 

Lindy: Then he took the cup of blessing, spoke the grace, and offered it to them saying:

“Take and drink.

Whenever you remember me like this, I am among you.”

 

By Your Spirit we are transformed.  Every time we share this bread and wine we choose to be transformed. We choose to love as You love us.

 

Through him, we have learned how to live.

Through him, we have learned how to love.

Through him, we have learned how to serve.  

 

Lindy:  Please receive this bread and wine saying: “As we receive communion, we become communion.”

 

Communion song: Breathe Love by Susan Lincoln & Craig Toungate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2eBbv7vVZg&ab_channel=SusanLincoln%26CraigToungate-Topic


 

Lindy: Loving Source of our being, You call us to live the Gospel of peace and justice. We live justly, we love tenderly, we walk with integrity in Your Presence.

 

Dave: Let us pray together the prayer of Jesus:

O Holy One, who is within, around, and among us, we celebrate your many names. Your wisdom come. Your will be done, unfolding from the depths within us. Each day you give us all that we need. You remind us of our limits, and we let go. You support us in our power, and we act with courage. For you are the dwelling place within us, the empowerment around us, and the celebration among us, now and forever. Amen.

 

This is The Prayer of Jesus as interpreted by Miriam Therese Winter

 

Lindy: Closing Prayer

 Nurturing one

We thank you for the earth’s vegetation enfolded in your warmth.

We thank you for earth’s creatures encircled in your loving arms.

We thank you for all those women and men who mothered us.

May we always remain in your everlasting community of love. Amen

 

BLESSING

 

Dave:  Please extend your hands and pray our blessing together.

  

May we continue to be the Face of God to each other. May the certainty of our connectedness to one another and all creation ignite us to love more fully. May those who nurtured us be remembered with love today and always.  May we, like Jesus, persist in love and be a blessing for all.  All: Amen.


 Closing Song  


City of God by Dan Schutte


https://youtu.be/yBgtxUhwpGc









"Be the change you want to see in the World"
Mahatma Gandhi

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